diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce6a0496..6044e98f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file, in reverse
 
 ### Changed
 
-- Nothing.
+- [#170](https://github.com/scoutapp/scout-apm-php/pull/170) Always use musl instead of trying to detect libc flavour
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/src/Config.php b/src/Config.php
index 7f445786..75d35e18 100644
--- a/src/Config.php
+++ b/src/Config.php
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 use Scoutapm\Config\TypeCoercion\CoerceBoolean;
 use Scoutapm\Config\TypeCoercion\CoerceJson;
 use Scoutapm\Config\TypeCoercion\CoerceType;
-use Scoutapm\Helper\LibcDetection;
 use function array_combine;
 use function array_key_exists;
 use function array_map;
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ public function __construct()
         $this->sources = [
             new EnvSource(),
             $this->userSettingsSource,
-            new DerivedSource($this, new LibcDetection()),
+            new DerivedSource($this),
             new DefaultSource(),
             new NullSource(),
         ];
diff --git a/src/Config/Source/DerivedSource.php b/src/Config/Source/DerivedSource.php
index 0352c04b..fc86f676 100644
--- a/src/Config/Source/DerivedSource.php
+++ b/src/Config/Source/DerivedSource.php
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 use Scoutapm\Config;
 use Scoutapm\Config\ConfigKey;
-use Scoutapm\Helper\LibcDetection;
 use function in_array;
 use function php_uname;
 
@@ -30,13 +29,9 @@ final class DerivedSource implements ConfigSource
     /** @var Config */
     private $config;
 
-    /** @var LibcDetection */
-    private $libcDetection;
-
-    public function __construct(Config $config, LibcDetection $libcDetection)
+    public function __construct(Config $config)
     {
-        $this->config        = $config;
-        $this->libcDetection = $libcDetection;
+        $this->config = $config;
     }
 
     /** @inheritDoc */
@@ -90,7 +85,12 @@ private function architecture() : string
 
     private function coreAgentTriple() : string
     {
-        $platform = 'unknown-linux-' . $this->libcDetection->detect();
+        /**
+         * Since the `musl`-based agent should work on `glibc`-based systems, we can hard-code this now.
+         *
+         * @see https://github.com/scoutapp/scout-apm-php/issues/166
+         */
+        $platform = 'unknown-linux-musl';
 
         $unamePlatform = php_uname('s');
         if ($unamePlatform === 'Darwin') {
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Config/Source/DerivedSourceTest.php b/tests/Unit/Config/Source/DerivedSourceTest.php
index 7f1dcb2f..03944f2b 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Config/Source/DerivedSourceTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Config/Source/DerivedSourceTest.php
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@
 use Scoutapm\Config;
 use Scoutapm\Config\ConfigKey;
 use Scoutapm\Config\Source\DerivedSource;
-use Scoutapm\Helper\LibcDetection;
-use function sys_get_temp_dir;
-use function tempnam;
-use function uniqid;
-use function unlink;
 
 /** @covers \Scoutapm\Config\Source\DerivedSource */
 final class DerivedSourceTest extends TestCase
@@ -29,7 +24,7 @@ public function setUp() : void
 
         $this->config = new Config();
 
-        $this->derivedSource = new DerivedSource($this->config, new LibcDetection('/' . uniqid('file_should_not_exist', true)));
+        $this->derivedSource = new DerivedSource($this->config);
     }
 
     public function testHasKey() : void
@@ -48,7 +43,7 @@ public function testGetReturnsNullWhenConfigKeyDoesNotExist() : void
     public function testCoreAgentFullNameIsDerivedCorrectly() : void
     {
         self::assertStringMatchesFormat(
-            'scout_apm_core-v%d.%d.%d-%s-linux-gnu',
+            'scout_apm_core-v%d.%d.%d-%s-linux-musl',
             $this->derivedSource->get(ConfigKey::CORE_AGENT_FULL_NAME)
         );
     }
@@ -63,19 +58,8 @@ public function testSocketPathIsDerivedCorrectly() : void
         );
     }
 
-    public function testMuslIsDetectedWhenAlpineFileDetected() : void
+    public function testMuslIsUsedForLibcVersion() : void
     {
-        $muslHintFilename = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'scoutapm_musl_hint_file');
-
-        $derivedSource = new DerivedSource(new Config(), new LibcDetection($muslHintFilename));
-
-        self::assertStringEndsWith('linux-musl', $derivedSource->get(ConfigKey::CORE_AGENT_TRIPLE));
-
-        unlink($muslHintFilename);
-    }
-
-    public function testGnuLibcIsDetectedWhenAlpineFileDoesNotExist() : void
-    {
-        self::assertStringEndsWith('linux-gnu', $this->derivedSource->get(ConfigKey::CORE_AGENT_TRIPLE));
+        self::assertStringEndsWith('linux-musl', $this->derivedSource->get(ConfigKey::CORE_AGENT_TRIPLE));
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Helper/LibcDetectionTest.php b/tests/Unit/Helper/LibcDetectionTest.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ecd7244..00000000
--- a/tests/Unit/Helper/LibcDetectionTest.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-declare(strict_types=1);
-
-namespace Scoutapm\UnitTests\Helper;
-
-use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
-use Scoutapm\Helper\LibcDetection;
-use function file_exists;
-use function sys_get_temp_dir;
-use function tempnam;
-use function unlink;
-
-/** @covers \Scoutapm\Helper\LibcDetection */
-final class LibcDetectionTest extends TestCase
-{
-    /** @var string */
-    private $filename;
-
-    /** @var LibcDetection */
-    private $libcDetection;
-
-    public function setUp() : void
-    {
-        parent::setUp();
-
-        $this->filename = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'scoutapm_musl_hint_file');
-        self::assertFileExists($this->filename);
-
-        $this->libcDetection = new LibcDetection($this->filename);
-    }
-
-    public function tearDown() : void
-    {
-        parent::tearDown();
-
-        if (! file_exists($this->filename)) {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        unlink($this->filename);
-    }
-
-    public function testDetectionOfMuslWhenHintFileExists() : void
-    {
-        self::assertSame('musl', $this->libcDetection->detect());
-    }
-
-    public function testDetectionOfGnuWhenHintFileDoesNotExist() : void
-    {
-        unlink($this->filename);
-        self::assertSame('gnu', $this->libcDetection->detect());
-    }
-}